PhD student in Physical Geography: Permafrost landscape classification
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University
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Soil System Sciences (SSS)
The northern permafrost region has been projected to shift from a net sink of greenhouse gases to a net source under global warming. However, annual permafrost region budgets of the main greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) are highly uncertain. This PhD student would work to create improved geospatial databases of permafrost landscapes to improve assessments of monthly to annual greenhouse gas budgets of the permafrost region. The research contributes to the CALIPSO project funded under Schmidt Futures as well as assessment of the permafrost region greenhouse gas budgets carried out within the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes-2 (RECCAP2) project.
The PhD student will work with the compilation and analyses of different types of geodata for permafrost landscape characterisation and classification across broad scales. The work of the PhD student will include mapping geomorphology, surface hydrology, vegetation dynamics and phenology, freeze-thaw spatial and temporal dynamics. The products and increased understanding generated by the PhD-student will be used in CALIPSO and RECCAP2 to support land surface modelling and greenhouse gas upscaling across permafrost landscapes.
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